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Plot. The film chronicles the life of Lena Baker, born to a sharecropper family, who later worked as a maid in a small county town to support her three children. Convicted in 1945 of capital murder by an all-white, male jury, Baker was the only woman in Georgia to be executed by the electric chair. Baker acted in self-defense in the fatal ...
Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story: Directed by Ralph Wilcox. With Tichina Arnold, Beverly Todd, Peter Coyote, Michael Rooker. A chronicle of the life of Lena Baker, the first woman to be sent to the electric chair in Georgia for the murder of her employer, who forced her into sexual slavery.
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- Crime, Drama, History
- Ralph Wilcox
- 2008-04-10
Based on true events, The Lena Baker Story recounts one African-American womans struggle to rise above the challenges of her life, to face the choices she makes, and to ultimately triumph over her...Lena Baker was the first and only woman to be sentenced to death by the electric chair in the state of Georgia and was executed in 1945.
The life story of Lena Baker, the first and only woman executed in Georgia on the electric chair.
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